DeRay, Kaya, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including Gayl Jones, abortion laws, and Our Black Girls. DeRay interviews Dr. Christopher Emdin, author of "Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success."

DeRay: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040048967/missing-black-women-girls-left-out-media-ignored

Kaya: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/26/us/oklahoma-abortion.html

De'Ara: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/magazine/gayl-jones-novel-palmares.html

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DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including Narcan shortages, CRT debates, welfare reform, and immigration issues. DeRay interviews Claire Bidwell Smith of the Lemonada podcast "New Day" about coping with grief.

Deray: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/11/naloxone-demand/

Kaya: https://www.propublica.org/article/to-get-public-assistance-these-single-mothers-are-forced-to-share-intimate-details-about-their-families

De'Ara: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/us/texas-migrants-del-rio.html

Sam: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/schools-facing-critical-race-theory-battles-are-diversifying-rapidly-analysis-n1278834

New Day podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-day/id1568014296

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DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including rural schools, suicide rates, Black Film Archives, and Portland's vaccine mandate. DeRay interviews Prof. Jessica S. Henry (author of "Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened") about no-crime wrongful convictions.

DeRay: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/well/mind/suicide-rates-black-girls.html

Kaya: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/magazine/rural-public-education.html

De'Ara: https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/black-film-archive-streaming-cinema-history.html

Sam: https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/08/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-police-bureau-citywide-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/

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DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including Naomi Osaka, Black surfers, juvenile discrimination, the labor shortage, and car fatalities. DeRay interviews Cliff Albright about Black Voters Matter Fund and the battle for voting rights.

DeRay: https://inquest.org/fear-of-the-black-child/

Kaya: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/04/ten-million-job-openings-labor-shortage/

De'Ara: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/31/sports/black-surfers.html

Sam: https://www.fastcompany.com/90657165/how-a-century-old-brand-is-transforming-itself-and-the-auto-industry?dclid=COiPlbfn6PICFUtf1QodDkYFTA

Mortality Gap Report: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/08/30/the-black-mortality-gap-and-a-century-old-document

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DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including voting rights, police overtime, eating disorders, and corporate profit from racial justice. DeRay interviews Dr. Elizabeth Mayer about biostatistics and what they reflect about cancer across demographic groups.

DeRay: https://www.insider.com/muscle-dysmorphia-makes-me-feel-way-a-man-should-feel-2021-8

Kaya: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/george-floyd-corporate-america-racial-justice/

De'Ara: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/27/house-debates-voting-rights-its-jim-crow-all-over-again/

Sam: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-28/lapd-overtime-budget-was-slashed-now-the-city-owes-47-million-dollars

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DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including Josephine Baker, Anthony Wright, Georgia's voter registration rate, and racist school textbooks. DeRay interviews activist Rev. Al Sharpton about March On for Voting Rights.

DeRay: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/former-cops-charged-wrongful-conviction_n_6116a25fe4b0f7bc26a545d0

Kaya: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/12/right-wing-textbooks-teach-slavery-black-immigration

De'Ara: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/22/world/europe/josephine-baker-pantheon-burial.html

Sam: https://www.ajc.com/politics/almost-all-eligible-georgians-are-registered-to-vote-data-show/WVN373LTIZAN7IJECDODHRJWLM/

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DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including Judge Eunice Lee, universal basic income, Simmont Thomas, and SNAP benefit increases. DeRay interviews artist Coby Kennedy to discuss his installation art piece "Kalief Browder: The Box" on display in Brooklyn's Pioneer Works Garden.

DeRay: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-gorwell-retirement-20210811-ekgfhoj2cbglvklnssgolpicoi-story.html

Kaya: https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-9832ab299bd1a5953f305ec1ae2b8ea9

De'Ara: https://newsone.com/4182991/eunice-lees-confirmation-continues-biden-promise-of-diverse-judiciary/

Sam: https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-new-mexico-guaranteed-monthly-payments-santa-fe-2021-8

Cody Kennedy's The Box: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/coby-kennedy-kalief-browder-the-box

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DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including forensic science reform, a Wegmans warehouse, the wealth gap in education, and Rebecca Hall's graphic novel "Wake." DeRay interviews Jonathan McCrory of the National Black Theatre.

DeRay: https://theintercept.com/2021/08/08/forensic-science-reform-justice-department/

Kaya: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/08/04/why-are-african-american-residents-this-small-town-determined-block-wegmans-warehouse/

Sam: https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-was-supposed-to-close-the-wealth-gap-for-black-americans-the-opposite-happened-11628328602

De'Ara: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/new-graphic-novel-reveals-black-womens-hidden-role-slave-revolts-rcna1573

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DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including small town prisons, #SheWillRise, reductions in the poverty rate, and reverse search warrants. DeRay interviews Michael Levine and Makeda Mays Green from Nickelodeon about how kids interact with entertainment.

DeRay: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/06/10/small-towns-used-to-see-prisons-as-a-boon-now-many-don-t-want-them

Kaya: https://www.vox.com/recode/22565926/police-law-enforcement-data-warrant

Sam: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/us/politics/covid-poverty-aid-programs.html

De'Ara: https://people.com/politics/meet-women-fighting-to-nominate-black-woman-to-supreme-court/

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DeRay, Kaya, Sam, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including Black policewomen, the Cleveland Guardians, executive clemency, and Philadelphia's law enforcement corruption. DeRay interviews Millete Birhanemaskel of Tigray Action Committee about the war in Ethiopia.

DeRay: https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/philadelphia-homicide-detectives-bribes-exonerations-murder-20210720.html

Kaya: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/sports/baseball/cleveland-guardians.html

Sam: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/us/politics/biden-prisoners-covid.html

De'Ara: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88ndwv/black-women-hired-police-chiefs-columbus-ohio-elaine-bryant

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